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by epistasis 5 days ago
No it really isn't much of a contributor to the current grid costs, which are nearly all maintenance and mismanagent.

Especially residential solar, which greatly lessens the need for distribution and transmission max capacity, therefore T&D costs, yet this is an area where the utility has been able to present very biased analyses that snow the regulators, because anything that lessens T&D need means that the utility makes less money and must be stopped.

There is not tons of curtailment of solar, it's a solved problem. Storage is now super super cheap. Grid maintenant is super expensive.

We have all the accounting right in front of us, and the answers are clear.

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It is a major factor. There is ton of curtailment which they are trying to address.